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Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.

A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.

A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. T. Moore.

Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. - Fa*nat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Fa*nat"ic*al*ness, n.

Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.

To cause to become a fanatic.

Fanaticism. [R.] Gibbon.

Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.

One who is governed by fancy. "Not reasoners, but fanciers." Macaulay.

Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul…

Free from the power of love. "In maiden meditation, fancy- free." Shak.

Love-sick. Shak.

A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. [Obs.] Shak.

Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

imp. of Find. Spenser.

A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.

place consecrated to religion; a church. [Poet.] Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes. Wordsworth.